SONG: "Matches"/"I'm Actual"
ARTIST: The Format
ALBUM: Dog Problems
TABBED BY: Brandon Karcic
Played in standard tuning, but tuning it down is possible. I like to play it a
full step down, to make the high notes in "I'm Actual" more singable.
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Chords
-C-|-C/B-|-Am-|-F7M -|-D7-|
-0-|--0--|-0--|--0--|-0-|
-1-|--1--|-1--|--1--|-1-|
-0-|--0--|-2--|--2--|-2-|
-2-|--0--|-2--|--3--|-0-|
-3-|--2--|-0--|--0--|-0-|
-x-|--x--|-x--|--x--|-x-|
Intro:
C - C/B - Am - C/BCC/BAmC/B
Ashes to ashes, some dust on the dash
CC/BAmC/B
I got my cigarettes
F7MAmD7Am
But I can't find the fire, it's calming me down
CC/BAmC/BCC/BAmC/B
I was just out on a night with my friends
CC/BAmC/B
You are still out on a night with your friends
F7MAmD7AmCC/BAmC/B
And you don't seem to tire when I'm not around
GFCC/BAmC/B
I'm under the tunnel, I'm holding my breath
CC/BAmC/BCC/BAmC/B
I searched every pocket that hung in the closet
CC/BAmC/B
Until I found some matches in a brown leather jacket
F7MAmD7AmCC/BAmC/B
One I swore I'd never worn, but it once kept you warm
GFCC/BAmC/B
Do you remember we made love on the floor?
F7MAmD7Am
And you still haven't called
F7MAmD7Am
So I wait until they're closing the bars
CC/BAmC/BGFC (Let this one ring)
I made a wish but the match never lit
(That's the end of "Matches", then starts "I'm Actual")
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C
Can we take the next hour
C/B
and talk about me
C/BAm
Talk about me, and we'll talk about me
AmGC
Talk about me, and we'll only talk about me
C
Can we please take this hour
C/B
and talk about me
C/BAm
and my hatred for corporate magazines
AmG
you know they don't speak to me
FGGAmC/BC
The irony is they won't speak with me
C
(I'm Actual, I'm Actual...)
VERSE 2
FGAmG
I placed you on a windowsill
FGAmG
Cut notches up and down the door
FGAmG
My surprise, I woke up one morn
FGC (hold)
In our bed, In your place lay a note; It read:
(The next part uses simple bar chord shapes, like so.)
----A----Ab/A---G-----F#G-------
D|--7------6-----5------4----------------------------|
A|--7------7-----5------5----------------------------|
E|--5------4-----3------2----------------------------|
AmAb/AGF#/G
Baby your love it just ain't good enough
FGC
I found sunlight six hours away
AmAb/AGF#/G (let ring)
You watered me down 'til I drifted abound
FGC
Somewhere far from your shade
FGAmG
Now I shadow my former self
FGAmG
Once holy, now lonely; a chest full of
FGAmG
holes; Red wax, it paints me unclear
FG
when the big hand strikes twelve
C (let ring)
I disappear
AmAb/AGF#/G
and the angels are fake and they'll lie to your face
FGC
Anything to keep you away
AmAb/AGF#/G
You watered me down 'til I drifted abound
GGGG
SOLO SECTION
AmAb/AGF#/GFGCAmAb/AGF#/GG
It's time I accept the fact
That you on your back has buried the past
C
Can we take the next hour
C/B
and talk about me
C/BAm
Talk about me, and we'll talk about me
AmGC
Talk about me, and we'll only talk about me
C
Can we please take this hour
C/B
and talk about me
C/BAm
and my hatred for corporate magazines
AmG
you know they don't speak to me
FGGAmC/BC (let the last chord ring!)
The irony is they won't speak with me
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That's it! Simple and easy and all that jazz. Enjoy!